Wednesday, January 29, 2014

DTN News: Happy Chinese New Year 2014 - Gong Xi Fa Cai / Kung Hei Fat Choi ~ Year Of The Horse

DTN News: Happy Chinese New Year 2014 - Gong Xi Fa Cai / Kung Hei Fat Choi ~ Year Of The Horse
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(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - January 29, 2014: We Wish All our Readers and Viewers a Happy Chinese New Year 2014 - Gong Xi Fa Cai / Kung Hei Fat Choi with Great Prosperity and Good Luck in the Year of the Horse!



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DTN News: U.S. Department of Defense Contracts Dated January 29, 2014

DTN News: U.S. Department of Defense Contracts Dated January 29, 2014
Source: K. V. Seth - DTN News + U.S. DoD issued No. CR-018-14 January 29, 2014
(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - January 29, 2014: U.S. Department of Defense, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs) Contracts issued January 29, 2014 are undermentioned;

CONTRACTS
DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY
AMI Industries, Inc., doing business as Goodrich Interiors Specialty Seating, Colorado Springs, Colo., has been awarded a maximum $8,817,781 firm-fixed-price contract for installation of aircraft ejection seats.  This contract is a sole-source acquisition.  Locations of performance are Colorado, Oman, and Iraq with an Aug. 15, 2016 performance completion date.  Using service is Oman and Iraq.  Type of appropriation is fiscal year 2015 through fiscal year 2016 foreign military sales.  The contracting activity is the Defense Logistics Agency Aviation, Robins Air Force Base, Ga., (SPRWA1-14-D-0001).
ARMY
Foresight Renewable Solutions, LLC, San Francisco, Calif. was awarded a $7,000,000,000 firm--fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for use in completing and awarding power purchase agreement task orders.  Funding and work performance location will be determined with each order.  Estimated completion date is Jan. 28, 2014.  Bids were solicited via the Internet with 114 received.  Army Corps of Engineers, Huntsville, Ala. is the contracting activity (W912DY-14-D-0008).
Raytheon Co., Andover, Mass. was awarded a $107,918,011 modification (P00108) to contract W31P4Q-09-C-0057 for work on the Patriot missile system.  Fiscal 2014 research, development testing and evaluation funds in the amount of $107,819,011 were obligated at the time of the award.  Estimated completion date is July 31, 2014.  Work will be performed at Andover, Billerica, Burlington, and Tewksbury, Mass; El Segundo Cal.; El Paso Texas; Huntsville Ala.; Norfolk Va.; Pelham N.H.; and White Sands, N.M.  Army Contracting Command, Redstone Arsenal, Ala. is the contracting activity.
Trax International, Las Vegas, N.V. was awarded a $44,113,856 modification (P00119) to contract W9124R-09-C-0003 for non-personal test support services for Yuma Proving Ground, Ariz.  Fiscal 2014 research, development, testing, and evaluation funds in the amount of $44,113,856 were obligated at the time of the award.  Estimated completion date is Jun 30, 2014. Work will be performed at Yuma, Ariz. and Ft. Greely, Alaska.  Army Contracting Command, Yuma Proving Ground, Yuma, Ariz. is the contracting activity.
Martinex Construction, Inc., Charleston, S.C. was awarded a $19,244,014 firm-fixed-price contract for dredging three-to six million cubic yards of material from the Savannah and Brunswick inner harbor.  Fiscal 2014 other procurement funds in the amount of $2,500,000 were obligated at the time of the award.  Estimated completion date is Feb 16, 2015.  Bids were solicited via the Internet with two received.  Work will be performed in Savannah and Brunswick, Ga. Army Corps of Engineers, Savannah, Ga. is the contracting activity (W912HN-14-C-0005).
Accenture Federal Service, Reston, Va. was awarded $7,523,792 modification (D00347) to contract N00104-04-A-ZF12 for general fund enterprise business system onsite support and change requests. Fiscal 2014 operations and maintenance (Army) funds in the amount of $7,523,792 were obligated at the time of the award.  Estimated completion date is June 27, 2015. Work will be performed in Kingstowne, Va.  Army Contracting Command, Rock Island Arsenal, Ill. is the contracting activity.
AIR FORCE
Garrett Container Systems, Accident, Md., has been awarded a $19,541,184 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for common Department of Defense civilian and military items.  This contract includes nine distinctive pieces of equipment that all security forces personnel utilize on a daily basis, including concealable body armor, Safariland 6005 SLS M-9 Berretta drop leg holster system (with Quick Locking System (QLS), mid-ride belt loop adapter, and small MOLLE adapter plate); nickel plated steel handcuffs, 21-inch expandable baton, mini-flashlight with holder, and whistle.  Work will be performed at Accident, Md., and is expected to be complete by March 2, 2019.  This award is the result of a competitive acquisition and all offerors were solicited using Federal Business Opportunities and three offers were received.  Fiscal 2014 operations and maintenance funds in the amount of $3,000 will be awarded for a post award.  771st Enterprise Sourcing Squadron, Joint Base San Antonio, Texas, is the contracting activity (FA8054-14-D-0002).
SelectTech Services Corp., Centerville, Ohio, has been awarded a $7,680,250 firm-fixed-price contract for engineering technical support services.  This contract is to provide personnel, equipment, tools, materials, and other items and services necessary to perform maintenance and fabrication of experimental processing and test equipment. The technical support shall consist of preventive and remedial maintenance, inspection, modification, overhaul, fabrication, repair, calibration, certification and transport of experimental/test equipment, and laboratory instrumentation.  Work will be performed at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, and is expected to be complete by Jan. 28, 2015.  This award is the result of a competitive acquisition and five offers were received.  Fiscal 2014 research and development funds in the amount of $111,000 are being obligated at time of award.  Air Force Research Laboratory/RQKE, Enterprise Contracting Branch, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, is the contracting activity (FA8650-14-4016).
NAVY
Lockheed Martin Corp., Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., Ft. Worth, Texas, is being awarded a $35,781,319 modification to a previously awarded cost-plus-fixed-fee contract (N00019-02-C-3002) to develop a Universal Armament Interface capability in the F-35 software for Small Diameter Bomb II F-35 Mission Systems Integration Laboratory, ground test only.  Work will be performed in Fort Worth, Texas, and is expected to be completed in April 2018.  Fiscal 2014 research, development, test and evaluation, Navy funds in the amount of $4,000,000 will be obligated at time of award, none of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity.
Raytheon Technical Services Co., LLC, Indianapolis, Ind., is being awarded a $17,257,960 firm-fixed-price delivery order against a previously issued basic ordering agreement (N00019-10-G-0006) for the procurement of 28 LAU-115D/A missile launchers for the Government of Australia and 64 LAU-116-B/A missile launchers for the U.S. Navy (34) and the Government of Australia (30).  These missile launchers are in support of the F/A-18E/F and EA-18G aircraft.   Work will be performed in Indianapolis, Ind., and is expected to be completed in September 2016.  Foreign military sales and fiscal 2013 and 2014 aircraft procurement, Navy funds in the amount of $17,257,960 are being obligated on this contract, none of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  This contract combines purchases for the U.S. Navy ($5,819,780; 34 percent) and the Government of Australia ($11,438,180; 66 percent) under the Foreign Military Sales Program.  The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity.
CoSTAR Services, Inc.*, San Antonio, Texas, is being awarded a $9,865,087 modification under a previously awarded firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract (N69450-13-D-7700) to exercise option one for regional base operations support services at Naval Air Station, Jacksonville, Naval Station Mayport, Naval Operational Support Center (NOSC) Atlanta, Ga., NOSC Augusta, Ga., NOSC Columbus, Ga., NOSC Bessemer, Ala., NOSC Greenville, S.C., NOSC Miami, Fla., NOSC Tallahassee, Fla., NOSC West Palm Beach, Fla., and Marine Corps Reserve Center Jacksonville, Fla.  Services include, but are not limited to facility investment, custodial, pest control, integrated solid waste management, and grounds maintenance and landscaping.  This contract contains options, which if exercised, will bring the contract value to $14,483,217.  Work will be performed in Jacksonville, Fla. (90 percent); West Palm Beach, Fla. (2 percent); Atlanta, Ga. (2 percent); Augusta, Ga. (1 percent); Columbus, Ga. (1 percent); Bessemer, Ala. (1 percent); Miami, Fla. (1 percent); Tallahassee, Fla. (1 percent); and Greenville, S.C. (1 percent).  Work is expected to be completed in January 2015.   Fiscal 2014 operation and maintenance, Navy; Fiscal 2014 operation and maintenance, Navy Reserve; Fiscal 2014 operation and maintenance, Marine Corps; Fiscal 2014 Navy working capital funds; Fiscal 2014 Defense health program funds; and Fiscal 2014 family housing operation and maintenance, Navy contract funds in the amount of $5,648,935 are being obligated on this award and will expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Southeast, Jacksonville, Fla., is the contracting activity.
Detyens Shipyards, Inc., North Charleston, S.C. is being awarded a $9,654,055 firm-fixed-price contract for a 55-calendar day regular overhaul and dry docking of fleet replenishment oiler USNS Leroy Grumman (T-AO 195).  Work will include port main engine clutch and coupling overhaul; antenna cleaning, inspecting and refurbishing; helicopter deck sprinkler and hose reel piping renewal; fall blocks and fairlead sheaves; hull painting and cleaning; and flight deck non-skid renewal. The ship’s primary mission is to provide fuel to U.S. Navy ships at sea and jet fuel to aircraft assigned to aircraft carriers.  The contract includes options, which, if exercised, would bring the cumulative value of this contract to $11,349,714.  Work will be performed in Charleston, S.C., and is expected to be completed by April 2014.  Fiscal 2014 working capital contract funds in the amount of $9,654,055 are being obligated at the time of award and will expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  This contract was competitively procured with proposals solicited via the Federal Business Opportunities website, with one offer received.  The U.S. Navy’s Military Sealift Command Norfolk, Norfolk, Va., is the contracting activity (N32205-14-C-1001).
Vigor Marine LLC, Portland, Ore., is being awarded a $6,655,679 firm-fixed-price contract for a 55-calendar day regular overhaul and dry docking availability of fleet replenishment oiler USNS Yukon (T-AO 202).  Work will include port main engine overhaul, gyro replacement, number four ship’s service diesel generator overhaul, docking and undocking and underwater hull cleaning and painting.  Yukon’s primary mission is to provide fuel to U.S. Navy ships at sea and jet fuel to aircraft assigned to aircraft carriers.  The contract includes options which, if exercised, would bring the total contract value to $8,092,975.  Work will be performed in Portland, Ore., and is expected to be completed by April 2014.  Fiscal 2014 working capital contract funds in the amount of $6,655,679 are being obligated at the time of award and will expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  This contract was competitively procured with proposals solicited via the Federal Business Opportunities website, with two offers received.  The U.S. Navy’s Military Sealift Command Norfolk, Norfolk, Va., is the contracting activity (N32205-14-C-1009).
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DTN News: Rosoboronexport Top Stories / Headlines News Dated January 29, 2014

DTN News: Rosoboronexport Top Stories / Headlines News Dated January 29, 2014
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DTN News - BANGLADESH DEFENSE NEWS: Bangladesh Buys Russian Combat Training Jets Worth $800 Million

DTN News - BANGLADESH DEFENSE NEWS: Bangladesh Buys Russian Combat Training Jets Worth $800 Million
Source: DTN News - - This article compiled by K. V. Seth from reliable sources Ria Novosti
(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - January 29, 2014: Bangladesh ordered 24 Russian Yak-130 light fighter jets worth $800 million in the final quarter of last year, a Russian newspaper reported Tuesday.

The deal was paid for with a loan extended by Moscow to the country a year ago, the director of Russian state arms exporter Rosoboronexport said in a separate interview published by Kommersant on Monday, without disclosing the deal’s price tag.

The newspaper said Tuesday that the sale was worth $800 million, citing unnamed sources in the defense industry. The planes are to be fitted with English-language cockpits and delivery is scheduled to begin next year.

The Yak-130 is a lightweight subsonic trainer aircraft designed to mimic the cockpit and handling capabilities of Russia’s more advanced fighters.

The plane can also be configured to carry a small payload of ground attack and air-to-air weapons.

Russia has targeted South Asia as a growth market for arms exports. The country delivered a refitted aircraft carrier, the INS Vikramaditya, to India earlier this month and is in the process of supplying Vietnam with six advanced attack submarines.

Yak-130 Combat Trainer Preface
The Yak-130 combat trainer was selected as the winner of the trainer competition of the Voyenno Vozdushnyye Sily, Russian Federation Air Force, in April 2002. The aircraft is also actively marketed for export by Yakovlev, the Irkut company, and by Rosoboronexport.

The Russian Air Force has a future requirement for 300 Yak-130 aircraft that can be deployed as a light strike aircraft or as a trainer for a range of fourth or fifth-generation fighters. An order was placed for the first 12 aircraft to replace ageing Aero Vodochody L-39 Albatros in 2002. The aircraft entered service in the Russian Federation Air Force at the military pilot training academy in Krasnodar in July 2009 and was showcased in the MAKS 2009 air show.

The production line for the aircraft at the Aviation Plant Sokol in Nizhny Novgorod, known as NAZ Sokol, is fully operational and the roll out of the first production series aircraft took place in May 2003. A series of flight tests of the serial production aircraft was started in April 2004.

The Russian Air Force ordered official testing in May 2005. The full trials of the advanced combat trainer, including spin and combat tactics trials, were completed in December 2009 prior to delivery of the first two production aircraft to the Russian Air Force.

The first Yak-130 ordered by the Russian Air Force completed its flight acceptance test at Sokol in August 2009. The Russian Air Force received the first four of 12 Yak-130s between February 2010 and April 2010. Another five aircraft were delivered in April 2011.

In December 2011, the Russian Ministry of Defence placed an order with Irkut for the delivery of 55 Yak-130 combat trainers by 2015. The first batch of six aircraft was delivered to the Russian Air Force in October 2012. The second batch of three Yak-130s was delivered in November 2012. A total of 15 aircraft were delivered to the Russian Air Force in 2012.

International orders and deliveries
In March 2006, it was announced that Algeria had placed an order for 16 Yak-130 trainers. The first flight of the Yak-130 built for Algerian Air Force was completed in September 2009. In September 2011, the Algerian pilots were permitted to take solo flights on the aircraft after completion of three months theoretical and practical trainings. Deliveries were concluded in 2011.

In January 2010, the Libyan Air Force ordered six Yak-130 aircraft. The Vietnamese Air Force has ordered eight Yak-130 aircraft.

In December 2010, the Kazakh Defence Minister signed an agreement with his Russian counterpart to use the Yak-130. Syria and Indonesia have also shown interest in Yak-130 combat trainers.


In December 2012, the Belarusian Defence Ministry signed a contract with Irkut for four Yak-130 combat-trainers. Deliveries are scheduled for 2015.

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